Tips of the Week: Tool Layout, Parachute Bags, Glove-Love, and Bendy Sticks
Organizing and carrying your tools and materials, drawing quick curves, and bit sharpening.
Workshop
The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for the industrial arts from metal and woodworking to CNC machining and 3D printing.
Mission Possible: Solving Problems and Realizing Goals Through Open Communities
Makers explore and experiment; they create and innovate. Many projects come from a personal interest or passion, but become something else.
Tips of the Week: Enlarging Washers, Gaffer’s Tape Patterns, Screw Identifying Tools
Identifying your fasteners, making patterns with gaffer’s tape, burning marks in wood, and more on zip tie cutting.
This Week in Making: Decentralize the Web, Girl Scouts Tackle Cybersecurity, and More
This week, Mozilla is trying to get makers to decentralize the web, the Girl Scouts tackle cybersecurity, board games go virtual, and more.
Building 1,000 Toy Trucks: Kansas City Woodworkers Guild Shares the Love
Now in its 8th year, Maker Faire Kansas City is happening this weekend. Join in the fun and see what the Kansas City Woodworkers Guild is up to!
Tips of the Week: Zip Tie Twisting, 3D Printing Sanding Grips, and the Orbital Sawing Stroke
Another week of useful shop trickery, including a must-know zip tie trick, from makers in cyberspace.
Making a Better Tape Dispenser with Adam Savage and Laura Kampf
Two well-known YouTube makers collaborate on building a portable, multi-roll tape dispenser.
